Does Anyone Else Have a Very Slow Connection to Audiogon?

It's been terrible!

The site has way too many ads to load and in the past many hidden "roll overs" that would trigger virus warnings/scans that would self trigger.  But at least I haven't had any of those in weeks.

Yes. At first I assumed my connection, then my device... I have eliminated all of those. It must be Audiogon. 

Yes, I’ve had the same issue of pages loading slowly here. It also is sluggish when making a post.

Yep. Super slow. 

Yes-I thought it was my ancient computer.

Yes, I am finding it slow now

Yes!

Yep

Every Saturday for months.

Much better now

Yep,  It will be fixed as quickly as the pop-up ads.

Yep,  It will be fixed as quickly as the pop-up ads.

Slow and occasional 500 errors.

Yes.  As for the pop up ads, there will be a point that their ads will back fire on them. I’ll only tolerate so much before I move on somewhere else. I’m sure I’m not alone that feels this way. 

I just sent my response and immediately a pop ad comes up. I’m done for the day.

Yes. Super slow.  Audiogon needs to fix what ever is causing this.  

Please put me on the yes list.

Yes, very slow to reload pages for days now compared to other websites. Made me try restarting my entire digital chain but same result.

Reminds me of the movie 'Idiocracy' where the guy is looking at his TV and its all surrounded by ads with the tv show in a tiny little portion of the screen. That movie was a crystal ball of the future.

Not overly slow in my case, but they keep logging me out, which is annoying. 

It had a really slow response time earlier today, but for some hours now has been running fairly smooth/swift. 

@nogaps   I have to relog in 50% of the time I come here. I opened several service requests and Tammy tried for a couple weeks to get the situation corrected but to no avail. I am reconciled to just living with it. And as to the OP's question, yes, load times have been frustratingly slow for me.

When I open Audiogon, I sometimes received a message saying “Safari couldn't open the page because the server stopped responding”.   Yes, response time is slow. 

Same here.  

I too get that 👆🏼👆🏼 too, slow to load and the ads cause the page to jump when I try to read it (iPad). I’ve been here since 2008, it’s never been this annoying. It’s definitely lost much of the Fun Factor.

Thanks Guys. Guess I'm better off that some. My VPN blocks pop ups. With all the confirmation of others concerning this issue, I have to wonder if Audiogon isn't trying to rid themselves of these forums by making the experience unbearable? IMO & IME Audiogon has never. been interested in promoting a good community atmosphere for the audiophile community I've been here since 2000 or 2001 and good community only happenned here in spite of the Agon leadership, NOT because of it. 

My connection has occasionally been slow but my main problems have been my Anti-virus freaking out with some of their adds and sometimes when click on things in the forums it occasionally takes me to an advertisers web page for no reason even when I'm sure I didn't click on that. Not too sure if their IT guy knows what he's doing.

That was happening for a short while earlier this morning for me, but it straightened itself out after about 10 minutes. 

The ads make the page jump around every two seconds, so I constantly have to relocate what I’m reading! The pop-up ads cover half of the screen. Then writing in the little box is an exercise in futility because the words are hidden at both margins!

The other issue I have with Agon is the writing of most subscribers is terrible. People don’t capitalize, punctuate, use spaces, or follow any grammar at all. Some people capitalize excessively, thinking that they have added their personal creative flair! It’s a complete waste of time to be constantly frustrated. So, I do sudoku puzzles instead. Sudoku obeys logic!

Yes. Slow to load for the last couple of days here as well.

Tom

It’s starting to become a pain in the butt !

Yes,it's been slow and ads,like crazy...Amazon prime, has been coming up like crazy This is not good at all.

The slowness and popup ads reduces the time that I want to spend on the Agon site.  

Also, while I've been logged in, I've typed responses on threads only to have my reply lost when it redirects me to the login page.  Moderators help please???

Use a ad blocker to eliminate popups and ads. I use AdGuard app on my iPad to block pops and ad banners, works like a charm. 

It seems much better this morning, 

Not always but very often. It is annoying. 

I previously posted that I installed 1Blocker on my iPhone and it did a great job of blocking unwanted Audiogon ads — that was the good news.

Unfortunately, The issue is it also blocked me from playing solitaire on my phone.  I don’t have time or interest to troubleshoot this further so I ended up deleting 1Blocker altogether.

I also understand that the ads above and below the forum content are important for generating revenue, which helps Audiogon support the maintenance of the Audiogon forums.  I have no issues with this but get very frustrated when an Amazon Prime ad pops up in the middle of my forum content.  

When an Ad appears, there is a symbol to the left of the 3 dots.  I hit this triangle like symbol, hit the tab that says send feedback and tell Google I am not interested in this ad. 

Yikes - In addition, another Amazon prime AD just appeared using Safari on my iPhone on Saturday, August 23 at 7am, California time.  I immediately notified Audiogon customer support this Amazon ad appearing is very frustrating and interruptive to me reading Audiogon forums.  Sometimes I just give up reading the forums.  

The ads above and below the forum content are okay but NOT in the middle of the forum content.  Their appearance is VERY disruptive. Thanks. 

I use a program called Aura which is a ad blocker and also unscribes me from data collectors of my information and have not seen a pop up ad since

@unclewilbur 

 People don’t capitalize, punctuate, use spaces, or follow any grammar at all.

Thanks. I had to laugh at that and I needed the laugh this  afternoon. I’m only laughing to keep from crying. Cursed are those helicopter parents who believed it necessary to send Little Johnny &/or Sally to 2nd grade with a new cell phone, back in the early 2000's. Being children with tiny fingers, they quickly figured out how to send messages to their friends across the classroom without being caught. The outcome, now we have perfectly good telephones being used as typewriters. Millenniums were spent trying to to invent a way to send our voices to our friends over long distances. Now those  with BIG fingers spend their time sending anagrams to strangers who haven’t a clue what they are writing about. Yes,it even happens on Hifi forums and in college research papers. OK, I’ll slide that soapbox back under the desk now. .

Yes, it’s been terrible.   Just 5 minutes ago, I clicked on 3 different items for sale and get the “oops Audiogon 500” error message.  After 2 more tries, the link is suddenly good. It’s getting I don’t visit here as much because of connectivity problems.  Life is too short for this BS. 

They have been invaded by gremlins! 🐲

I use AdBlocker. It works well.

I use adblocker+ too, still have problems.